Paper: 1) Russian machine-made paper without labels, 2) Russian machine-made paper with a stamp of Kosino Paper Mill of Riazantsevs [Косинская фабрика Рязанцевых], Vyatka Governorate, had been made in 1887 (f. 1-31, 77-79). [ref.: Клепиков С.А. Филиграни и штемпели на бумаге русского и иностранного производства XVII-XX вв. М., 1959. № 175]. Writing style: half-uncial script by several hands. Cyrillic numeric pagination (scriber’s and sammelband composer’s). Decoration: headings with Vermilion and purple inks, schematic head-pieces (f. 7, 9, 10, 11, 18); a head-piece with floral ornament, stencil (f. 91); drawings without plot (f. 39, 52); initials with floral ornament (f. 2, 5-8, 12, 15, 18, 20, 21, 32, 66, 82, 83, 85); end-pieces with floral ornament and added with the so-called style Playing Text [игра текстом] – triangle-shaped objects (f. 65, 74, 87); schematic end-pieces (f. 3, 6, 8, 21, 23, 33, 65); schematic end-piece added with Playing Text (f. 82); end-pieces in Playing Text (f. 19, 36, 38).
The manuscript contains Patericon’ essays from the Prolog [Synaxarion // Пролог], On Blessed and Ever-memorable Obedience [Слово о послушании] of Saint John Climacus, On False Teachers [Слово о лжеучителях] by pseudo- John Chrysostom, the Homilies on those who have been treated using witchcraft [Поучение о лечащихся волхованием] of John Chrysostom, and the Vision of Macarius of Egypt, and extracts from the Kormchaia Book [Book of the Pilot // Кормчая], the Kirillova Kniga [Kirill’s book // Кириллова книга], the Catechism, the Patericon of Jerusalem, essays of John Zonaras and Joseph Volotsky on Christian faith and heretical baptism and communion. The sammelband doesn’t have beginning and ending. Readers’ notes and textile bookmarks. The manuscript is compiled from texts written in the 1890s-1910s. 4° (manuscript size - 213 mm x 167 mm); 98 f; Condition: unsatisfactory. The manuscript was acquired [supposedly] by the community of Old believers-pilgrims living in the Tomsk-Chulym taiga.
